Re: Daumier-Smith and Empathy


Subject: Re: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 05:09:05 GMT


    '... sometimes the writer doesn't know himself all
    the meanings of his book ...'

    Since I make some of my money telling people stuff about
    themselves that I claim to know better than they do, I have
    to agree - to an extent - with Valérie.

    But only to a very limited extent. A great critic may
    occasionally be able to stand back & pick out patterns
    in a man's oeuvre - relating them sometimes, perhaps,
    it to the known facts of his life. But the smart asses who
    pontificate confidently about the underlying meanings
    in a book - through the identification of a lot of clichéd
    symbols - these guys should be taken out & put up against
    a wall.

    Unfortunately, it's a dead easy practice &, so, much favoured
    by academics. And then reproduced by their students like so
    many parrots hoping for an extra lump of sugar.

    Scottie B.

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